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A Compact Hornby Clockwork Layout

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A Compact Hornby Clockwork Layout
Posted by wallyworld on Saturday, June 28, 2014 12:29 PM

For something completely different..I built this as an adjunct to a powered layout. Marx and Unique Arts motive power takes over at times.

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Posted by Firelock76 on Saturday, June 28, 2014 2:05 PM

A lot of action in a small space, you couldn't have done better!  Well done, and an interesting collection.

All that's missing is Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson waiting on the station platform!

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Posted by AF53 on Sunday, June 29, 2014 10:18 AM

Great video Bruce! Do I detect a shim or two under your track at some corners?

Ray

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Posted by M636C on Monday, June 30, 2014 8:37 AM

wallyworld

For something completely different..I built this as an adjunct to a powered layout. Marx and Unique Arts motive power takes over at times.

 

Wallyworld,

In the video you say you don't know the age of the Hornby passenger cars.

What you have is the "M1" passenger set with two British Pullman cars.

I was given one of those new in about 1952. The M1 locomotives were available in either red or green and the trains were unaltered from production in the mid to late 1930s. By the mid 1950s, the M1 was replaced by the "No 31" set which had a similar locomotive with a different separately applied cab in a darker (British Railways) green. In fact, the tender you have is a number 31 tender. The M1 tender was lighter green with just a four digit number rather than the BR logo. The Pullman cars were replaced by red and cream side corridor cars in the No 31 set, so your Pullmans would date from the mid 1930s up to the early 1950s.

I had a No 31 set too, later....

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